Rokudaime Naruto
Chapter Seven
The next morning they continued the meeting. Having had some time to rest and think over the prospects facing them they where slightly more pleasant.
"Thanks again for considering this. The fact that you are still here says quite a bit." Naruto said to his fellow Kage's.
The others nodded excepting the Tsuchikage, who just sat listening.
Naruto spoke to the older man directly. "Tsuchikage-sama, last night I did not mean to insinuate other ways to run your village. I understand that your village is your business and I will not ever interfere in that, I promise that."
"I see," said the old man. "well, I thank you for your consideration, Hokage-sama. And after thinking about it I have decided that I will offer my support in this campaign of yours."
"Thanks," said Naruto with a smile on his face. "that means a lot, and I hope that eventually we can work together on other things. We may be facing a severe trial but I see this as an opportunity to bring our five villages together, working together to give our children a good future."
The others nodded their agreement and the Tsuchikage spoke again. "I'm sorry but I was not finished." He sighed as though he was doing something unpleasant, "I was thinking about what you said. When you said that if I knew anything about the demons that might help. Well I have some things to tell all of you."
It was two weeks after the Kage meeting was concluded. The others left for their villages after agreeing to leave the animal spirits alone whenever they should resurface.
Naruto had told the Mizukage to keep an eye out for the three-tailed turtle, Sanbi, due to that fact that hidden mist is surrounded by water and it seemed likely that it might make a home for itself there. The Mizukage assured him that his village had not used one of them in a sealing before.
He had told the Raikage to be wary of the two-tailed cat, Nibi. Judging by how Shukaku had acted with Suna, it reasoned well that Nibi might act in a similar way.
The Tsuchikage took more convincing, after a while it became clear that the stone village also never had created a Jinchuriki. The older Kage was distrusting of Naruto simply due to the fact that Naruto was, in his eyes, his own father. Everything about the young Hokage reminded the Tsuchikage of an old foe in the original yellow flash.
The man did have some information on the spirits though. While he swore that they never sealed one they did research all they could since they found that the hidden leaf village had produced its own Jinchuriki. Twenty years ago they found information that the other villages all seemed to have one with the exception of hidden mist. At that point they sought the demons out in order to find one that might help them against their one time foe, Konoha.
Naruto was contemplating that the Tsuchikage told him. He had information on 3 of the elusive spirits forms. He now knew what the most of them once where.
They knew the forms of the Five-tailed, the Seven-tailed, and the Eight-tailed spirits. The five-tailed form was that of a dog, it's name is Gobi no Houkou. It was rumored that the spirit was territorial and fierce, the location was unknown but it seemed likely that it would return to where it was taken from by the Akatsuki.
The seven-tailed name is Shichibi no Kaku and form was a badger, not much else was found information wise on this one and also they only had the name and form of the Eight-tailed, which name is Hachibi no Hachimata the snake.
Naruto thanked the Tsuchikage for the shared information and offered his support and alliance if ever needed. Hoping that this trial might help to bring about a time of peace between the villages.
Naruto was sitting in his office reading through rumored sighting reports. There was a large map of the country and outlaying regions spread out on a table to the right of his desk. The map was marked heavily with X-marks and circles, in different shades of ink.
Shikamaru was sitting at that table pouring over the map and the reports that he had received from the other villages. "You know, Naruto. We are running out of places on this map where they can be hiding."
Naruto looked over at the map, and his eyes narrowed at it. He then looked back at his notes and reports, "Where are you?" he muttered mostly to himself.
They continued on in this vain for a while, well into the day while Naruto had his clones taking care of all of the other paperwork and mission assignments.
Before the end of the day there was a message received by messenger bird from the hidden cloud village. Naruto unrolled the scroll and read it through quickly. He then gave a booming laugh that caused Shikamaru to jump and his clones to glare at him.
"What? What is it?" asked Shikamaru.
Naruto still chuckling handed the scroll to his chief strategist. As he read it his expression grew more and more disbelieving. "Wow, I can hardly believe it, this makes our job a bit easier though."
"Yeah, the Raikage's men have found and dispatched the Nibi container," Naruto smiled. His face turned serious, "but we need to confirm this." With that he bit into his thumb and went through the seals needed and summoned a small toad. "Gamaicihi, I have to have you bring a message to Kawazu, ok?"
"Sure thing boss," replied the frog.
Naruto took and empty scroll and wrote instructions to Kawazu, putting the scroll into the small pouch the frog had slung on its back, Gamaicihi disappeared. Turning to Shikamaru he said, "I guess we will wait until he gets back to me before marking that one off the list, ok?"
"Yeah, I got it," Said Shikamaru.
Naruto stretched and looked over at his clones, who where just finishing with the filing. He dispelled the clones and turned back to his friend. "I think that we can call it a day. Same time tomorrow?"
Shikamaru nodded and sealed the info that was spread out over his table, then turning to Naruto, "Yeah see ya tomorrow."
Naruto left the office and headed first to the ramen stand before heading home.
"Hey old man, bowl of pork ramen."
The elderly man turned to his favorite customer, "Hello there, Hokage-sama." He did a slight bow.
Naruto gave a look of mock outrage, "you don't have to do that old man," as this was a common occurrence between the two.
Naruto quickly ate his bowl and sighed contently, "That really hit the spot."
The owner asked, "You really think so, Naruto?"
"Of course! Nothing beats your ramen, old man."
"I'm glad you like it Naruto-kun," Said Ayame from the back. "But just so you know father was not the one who made it this time."
"Huh?" said Naruto.
"Naruto," started the owner. "Ayame made it this time."
"Really, well then I guess good abilities can be passed down to children then huh?" said Naruto smiling. "but why have Ayame-chan prepare the food?"
"Naruto," said the old man. "I have enjoyed serving you your ramen all these years. You are a good kid." He smiled fondly. "But I'm old, kid. I can't keep up with work anymore, so I decided to retire. Before doing so we needed to make sure that our favorite customer would still be happy with a new cook."
Naruto just sat there, silent for a moment. Then he finally smiled. "well I am happy that I contributed my share to your retirement fund." He sighed, "I'll miss you old man, people may think that you are just a food vendor, but I know different. Thanks for all the good ramen over the years. And the listening ear whenever I needed it. You have no idea how much you helped me out in my life." Naruto reached over to shake his hand, "If you ever need anything don't hesitate to ask."
"Thanks, kid. And good luck with every thing. I'm sure that I'll see you around." The old owner went to the back. "One more then," he said to Naruto. "I'm going to fix up one last bowl of my special for you, one the house."
Naruto grinned, "Wow, thanks a lot old man."
Naruto looked outside, after he finished that bowl, and saw that the sun was starting to set. "Well thanks for every thing, old man. But I got to be getting home."
The owner smiled and waved to him, and his daughter called out, "tell Hinata-chan hello for us."
"Will do, and thanks for the food."
Hinata was in the hospital, in the room Sakura was examining her. Hinata had been feeling ill and needed to be checked out.
When Sakura was done she looked up at her friend. "Well Hinata, there is a reason that you are ill. Congratulations, you're pregnant."
Hinata was not surprised but instead she smiled. "I thought so, I wanted to be sure before I got my hopes up again."
Sakura smiled at her, "I'll want to see you in a couple weeks. It is still to soon to tell the gender but it seems normal at this stage."
"Thank you Sakura-san, it goes without saying but I would prefer to keep this quiet for now, ok?" said Hinata.
The medic-nin nodded sadly, "I understand, after all since beforeā¦" She then brightened, "well I'm sure Naruto will be happy."
Hinata said, "Yeah I know he will be."
Naruto got home and did not feel his wife's presence anywhere in the house. He figured that she must be out with friends or her family's home. He went to their bedroom and putting his robes in with the laundry wrapped a towel around his waist.
He made his way to the back yard where he would soak in the private onsen.
As he relaxed, there where many thoughts going through his head. He tried to empty it, which proved easy when he was a kid, but now was a difficult task to do.
Some time after he was soaking he felt someone entering the house. Figuring it to be Hinata he stayed where he was.
And soon Hinata did walk out of the back door and over to Naruto soaking. Naruto smiled as he looked up at her standing behind him. "Hey Hinata-chan, come on waters always good," he smiled.
She smiled and agreed, and then walked back to the house to come back 5 minutes later wrapped in a towel.
The two of them sat in the water. Naruto had his arm around her and he was almost asleep.
Hinata saw this and thought that she better tell him soon. After all he deserves to know. "Naruto-kun, I have something to tell you."
He woke a bit, "Hmm?" he mumbled groggily. He became more alert and looked down and the said, "why didn't you tell me?"
"W-What do you mean Naruto?"
He held his hands up, they where water logged and wrinkly, "I almost fell asleep here, man that would have sucked if I really did."
Hinata blushed and smiled a bit as he got up to towel him self off. She said "Naruto I went and saw Sakura today and I found something out I have to tell you."
"Yeah?" he asked as her wrapped a towel around his waist again.
"Well," she started, "I'm pregnant."
Naruto froze. She was waiting for a response but after a moment he made none. He stood there with his back still to her. "Naruto-kun?"
He slowly turned back to her to see her standing there with a wrapped in a towel. He had an odd look on his face, she could not place what it meant. "What was that?" he asked simply.
"I-I'm pregnant."
His eyes grew wide and a smile formed on his face, "r-really?"
She nodded quietly.
He quickly took her into his arms, "that's great news, Hinata-chan." His face grew concerned, "do you think it best if we kept this quiet this time?"
She nodded, "yeah I was thinking the same thing. But we should tell our closest friends, my family as well."
"Yeah," he said as the two of them walked back into the house.
Authors note: Please review I will try to update as soon as I can but I am going on a small vacation so next update may not come until late next week
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